CVE-2022-23946

high

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon GCodeNumber parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted gerber or excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5214

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1460

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5EMCGSSP3FIWCSL2KXVXLF35JYZKZE5Q/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00010.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00009.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-02-04

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High